Video: ObamaCare diagnosed in one sentence

posted at 12:41 pm on September 10, 2012 by Ed Morrissey

Note to amateur grammarians: Don’t try to diagram this sentence at home. Via Andrew Malcolm, a physician running for the Illinois State Senate sums up ObamaCare in one sentence — one very long sentence, but still just one. Dr. Barbara Bellar brought down the house at a Romney event in August with this perspective-setting description of the Affordable Care Act, which already has over 340,000 views but which I’ve just seen for the first time:

Against my better judgment, I decided to transcribe this video:

So, let me get this straight. This is a long sentence. We’re going to be gifted with a healthcare plan that we’re forced to purchase and fined if we don’t, which purportedly covers at least 10 million more people without adding a single doctor but provides for 16,000 new IRS agents, written by a committee whose chairman says he doesn’t understand it, passed by a Congress that didn’t read it but exempted themselves from it, and signed by a President who smokes — [laughter] — same sentence! — with funding administered by a Treasury chief who didn’t pay his taxes, for which we will be taxed for four years before any benefits take effect, by a government that has already bankrupted Social Security and Medicare, all to be overseen by a Surgeon General who is obese — [laughter] — and finally, financed by a country that’s broke.

At the end, Dr. Bellar even channeled Allahpundit with this exit question:

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So, let me get this straight. This is a long sentence. We’re going to be gifted with a healthcare plan that we’re forced to purchase and fined if we don’t, which purportedly covers at least 10 million more people without adding a single doctor but provides for 16,000 new IRS agents, written by a committee whose chairman says he doesn’t understand it, passed by a Congress that didn’t read it but exempted themselves from it, and signed by a President who smokes — [laughter] — same sentence! — with funding administered by a Treasury chief who didn’t pay his taxes, for which we will be taxed for four years before any benefits take effect, by a government that has already bankrupted Social Security and Medicare, all to be overseen by a Surgeon General who is obese — [laughter] — and finally, financed by a country that’s broke.

Still, she failed to mention that Obama and his family also exempted themselves from the ‘wonderful’ plan and she left out the panel which will determin who gets treated, for what, and who doesn’t, yes the “death panel”.

What could go wrong? The guy who’s banner you’re behind ould win and then refuse to fight to repeal it. Or he could lose as a result of his inability and/or unwillingness to promote and argue why free market principles benefit all.

Benedict Roberts? Yep, his decision will be one of the pivotal reasons this country will split. When a country relies upon esoteric eggheads to interpret what the Constitution says in clear language, just to justify massive government intrusion in private lives, we are done. Even repealing ObamaTax won’t be enough. Nothing short of a constitutional amendment is going to close the barn door that Benedict Roberts opened with his “it’s a tax, but it’s not a tax” sophistry. Supreme Court decisions like his are why this country finds itself at the edge of the abyss. Emanations and penumbras are simply statists torturing language and history to advance totalitarian ideals.

Pravda laughed. So did Fidel. But Goebbels laughed his dead azz off, again, in convultions in his grave. He’s been having lots of fun with Obama and his goons. It’s all so surreal, in a once very free land, heck, the freest ever imaginable. Yep, I can defend this freedom with blood, and lots of risk of life, I can speak in freedom, still. Contemplate this, not you, but all who’re even 1% inclined to be non-Voltairean.

He is going to replace it you know. He likes mandates dontcha know? So seriously, what is the difference? Who pays for it and which party gets the blame for it. I would rather senior citizens pay for it rather than my 1 year old daughter. They at least have a vote, and have had a vote for generations to make changes. Instead they chose to stick with the selfish greedy policies of socialism.

That was a chain email that was going around for quite some time. I guess someone finally read it while be recorded. LOL

ButterflyDragon on September 10, 2012 at 1:00 PM

Yes, it was indeed. I received a couple of different versions from some conservative friends who don’t like Facebook. I don’t think I still have any of those emails to be able to go back and find out if there was an attribution.

He is going to replace it you know. He likes mandates dontcha know? So seriously, what is the difference? Who pays for it and which party gets the blame for it. I would rather senior citizens pay for it rather than my 1 year old daughter. They at least have a vote, and have had a vote for generations to make changes. Instead they chose to stick with the selfish greedy policies of socialism.

So, do we know what parts of this healthscare Romney would keep? Any bets?

armedcitizen on September 10, 2012 at 1:26 PM

The mandate will stay. The children to age 26 will stay. Health exchanges will stay. The only big change will be Romney will return the medicare money and Ryan will steal our children’s future earnings to pay for it.

Thanx, Ed. I saw this last week and was waiting for it to show up here. Dr. Bellar is running in a district in suburban Crook County, just south of the Chicago city limits. I hope she wins bcuz the IL legislature needs more like her–and less of those scummy Dooms who’ve been messing up the state for over 30 years.

I would imagine Romneycare 1.0. The version he has never backed away from. The one that came complete with the individual mandate and the raiding of medicare to pay for it, not to mention the abortion mandate placed on religious healthcare givers that we all attack Obamacare on.

Good times, good times. The Republicans, taking the reigns of democrat failures time and time again, leaving them free to pursue new endeavors for the Republicans to take over…

Yeah, what could go wrong? It’s the most wonder program evah! You must hate poor people! All rich people (with the exception of rich celebrities and other progressive-supporting elites) must pay their fair share!

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You have to first understand the complexity of developing FEDERAL programs vs. programs run on a state level.

Like 310 million vs. 6 million people. One size fits all ? Easy Button.

Your more serious question should be is what happens to those poor people of Mass that will have to scrap THEIR HC program and belong to the central Federal program. (Or get a statewide exemption waiver from Dear Leader)

I would imagine Romneycare 1.0. The version he has never backed away from. The one that came complete with the individual mandate and the raiding of medicare to pay for it, not to mention the abortion mandate placed on religious healthcare givers that we all attack Obamacare on.

To support your point Romney himself delivered a disastrous interview on NBC yesterday where he backpedalled on whether he would repeal ObamaCare, what parts, precisely, he would repeal, what parts he likes, which all assumes on its face that Romney supports ObamaCare in principle even as he takes issue with its particulars.

Depressing I must say. The doctor with her long sentence is great. Why she thinks Romney will do anything about this problem when he is even now saying that he won’t is a mystery.

Medical choices and paying for them are personal things. Why is the federal government involved in these things? When my wife’s family in the philippines needs medical care. The money comes from my pocket to pay for it. They are poor. They are my relatives. Who should I be supporting? Some crack wh0re in philadelphia or my own family? Why am I out 25% of my wealth creation for 2011 to pay for people who refuse to get off their asses and get a job? Figure calculated using all the social spending at federal, state and local levels comapred to total spending for all and the amount of taxes withheld and kept by the same. Social security and medicare being the largest portion of it.

Romney has said he’ll pay for those cuts by eliminating loopholes and deductions for higher-income earners. But both Republicans were unyielding in saying that the specifics would come only after the election.

“Mitt Romney and I, based on our experience, think the best way to do this is to show the framework, show the outlines of these plans, and then to work with Congress to do this,” Ryan said on ABC’s “This Week.”

With tax rates at 70% the government collected 18%, with tax rates at 30% the government collected 19% with the tax rates at 36% the government collected 16%. There is a limit to the amount of wealth creation people are willing to part with. There is a limit to how much the government can take from the economy and spend unwisely. That limit in America is about 19% for the federal government during good times and goes down in bad times. loophole or no loophole you just will not collect more for very long as people will adjust their wealth creation and where and when they realize it to stick to that limit. Thus the limitation must be on spending. Are they talking about limiting the spending? NO? Get back to me when they do.

She forgot the part where friends Of Obama get waivers by the boat load!

ConcealedKerry on September 10, 2012 at 1:10 PM

Speaking of Obama’s friends, it was reported on FNC earlier today that Obama adviser and Chicago slumlord Valerie Jarrett has a full complement of Secret Service agents providing her with protection 24/7. Cost of this extravagance to taxpayers: undisclosed.

Long sentence!? Pish-tosh. Modern ADD. Victor Hugo wrote a sentence in Les Miserables that runs two pages fine print. Or try just about any opening sentence of a short story or novella by the German author Heinrich von Kleist.